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Patricia Broderick at Ille Arts
Patricia Broderick, My Mother Making up - late 30s, 1997, oil crayon on paper, 40 x 30 inches. Courtesy of Ille Arts. Patricia Broderick's (1925-2003) exhibition at Ille Arts in Amagansett, New York...
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Top Off-Broadway Shows to Watch in NYC This Season: Part One
While Broadway shows and musicals often top the list of must-do activities for visitors and New Yorkers alike, smaller scale and sometimes underrated Off-Broadway shows are making a heat wave this...
View ArticleMusic I (Mostly) Hold Dear: On Robert Dick
In tribute to Robert Dick on being awarded the National Flute Association's Lifetime Achievement Award, August 2014 I first met Robert Dick -- flutist, composer, improviser- when starting my graduate...
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Pitchfork Music Festival: Up Close (PHOTOS)
Pitchfork Music Festival takes place in Chicago every summer and is known for having an array of musical guests -- some larger and more established acts like Beck or Neutral Milk Hotel, some more newer...
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Mutoid Waste Guide the Lost Tea Party to Burning Man
The first experience of a Mutoid Waste installation may trigger a load of reactions. Often it starts with the inevitable "wow" of disbelief. After a few seconds, when reality has somehow kicked back...
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"Kick" (Hindi, with English subtitles)
Devi (Salman Khan) is an adrenaline junkie. He lives for the kick of things. At first, the mayhem is reasonably innocent. He's high strung, never sitting still. He gets in fights. Mixed-martial arts...
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Theater: Strictly Delightful 'Strictly Dishonorable'
STRICTLY DISHONORABLE *** 1/2 out of **** THE ATTIC THEATER COMPANY AT FLEA THEATER One of the greatest talents in film history, Preston Sturges is best remembered for four stellar comedies: The Palm...
View ArticleRobert Wilson's Lady Gaga Portraits at The Watermill Center's Annual Summer...
The theme may have been "One Thousand Nights and One Night: Sleepless Night of Sheherazade" at this year's Watermill Center Benefit, but as we well know, Lady Gaga's visual and conceptual incarnations...
View ArticleFestival de Sole Creates Its Own Artistic Aura
The sun shining down on Napa has created a wonderful gravitational pull with the events offered at this year's Festival de Sole. Featuring beloved and up-and-coming performers from classical music,...
View ArticleDisrupt Thyself
"The emotions -- love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust -- are in the audience." - John Cage -- composer, music theorist, artist, writer, disruptor It took John...
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Opera Comes to Maui
Photo by Jack Grace When Maui Academy of Performing Arts hired Jim Price to portray Jean Valjean in their unforgettable production of Les Miserables last year, they had no idea what he saw happening...
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Learning Los Angeles: Debra Padilla, Arts and Activism
Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), in the historic Venice police station, houses the UCLA@SPARC Digital Mural Lab, a comprehensive archive, a UCLA graduate program, a printmaking studio and...
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Sad Presentiments
Francisco Goya, Tristes presentimientos de lo que ha de acontecer (Sad presentiments of what must come to pass), etching, circa 1810-20, 17 x 22 cm (plate) "...for there is no folly of the beast of...
View ArticleArt Will Be Everywhere This August in America
Public advertisements have become such a commonplace part of the American landscape that we don't even consciously register them anymore -- that is unless they contain something extraordinary. Such...
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Chautauqua Theater Company Premieres The May Queen, an Inspired Tragicomedy
In recent years The Chautauqua Theater Company has consistently been among Chautauqua Institution most rewarding cultural programs. Under the astute leadership of Artistic Director Vivienne Benesch and...
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Melody 4.0 With Macaulay Culkin and The Pizza Underground
Last week on my birthday, I released Season 4 of my web series Melody Set Me Free. Melody Set Me Free 4.0 "We KiKi" stars yours truly with Macaulay Culkin and The Pizza Underground. In the episode, P...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Sturges' Strictly Dishonorable, Quinton in Drop Dead Perfect
Before he began writing as well as directing his celebrated movies, Preston Sturges uncorked Strictly Dishonorable, a hit Broadway show. It was such a click that although it opened a little more than a...
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Attention Must Be Paid
If one goes by the calendar year instead of the traditional September-September definition of a Broadway season, 1964 was a banner year for Broadway musicals. In that 12-month period 16 major musicals...
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Punch a Hole in the Rocky Steps?
If you are from Philly, they are not the Rocky Steps, but the Art Museum Steps. The steps were there long before Sly Stallone had Garrett Brown use a prototype of the Steadicam to run up the steps for...
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Koons, Walker and the Examination of Life and Death
Jeff Koons and Kara Walker are far from the first artists to explore the concept of life and death in their artwork. In fact, this concept is the very essence of what the art world constantly seeks to...
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